Aged Couple’s Night Horror. Is it a Ghost, or a Heartless Hoax? Wild bellringing from bedroom window. Stones moved, doors slashed and blazing paraffin. An up-to-date ghost equipped with knife, safety razor, paraffin rags, and
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Lincoln (1996)
‘Haunting Mystery’ Terrifies Family. L Files – the Truth is Out There. By Stephen Beech. A family told today how a bizarre mystery has turned into a terrifying nightmare. Gary and Teresa Stephens are convinced
Continue ReadingLeasingham, Lincolnshire (1679)
Relation IV. A true account, how Alice, the daughter of William Medcalfe, Yeoman, in the parish of Lessingham in Lincolnshire, was disturbed by an Apparition, with other feats of witchcraft practised upon that family, sent
Continue ReadingWhaplode, Lincolnshire (1937)
Ghost in Whaplode Cottage. Beautiful girl walks from cupboard. Legend of a murdered gipsy. A strange experience. Our picture shows the three brothers, Messrs. Ebenezer, Herbert and George Hy. Watkins, who reside in
Continue ReadingBarkston, Lincolnshire (1856)
Barkston. Spirit Rapping. This hitherto quiet village has for the last three weeks been in a most tremendous state of excitement, owing to a report, somewhat extensively circulated, that a supernatural manifestation occurs in one
Continue ReadingNew Waltham, Lincolnshire (1988)
Ghostly presence terrorising family. A young Grimsby area couple with one youngster claim they have been terrorised by strange happenings in their council house during which a spare bedroom was completely wrecked, apparently by a
Continue ReadingScunthorpe, Lincolnshire (1977)
Strange happenings in ‘haunted’ house. Scunthorpe housewife Mrs Evelyn Medex has asked the Borough Council to exchange her present home, because she claims it is haunted. Mother-of-three Mrs Medex (40) moved into the house in
Continue ReadingNorth Hykeham, Lincolnshire (1995)
Jolly Roger the ‘lodger’. Casper the friendly ghost has got nothing on a county family’s friendly phantom. The Johnsons from Constance Avenue, North Hykeham, have spent the last 17 years sharing their home with their
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Ghost got into bed with me, says Lincoln woman. Ghostly sounds of wood being chopped in the back garden late at night, coupled with the frequent phantom appearance of a young fair-haired woman in her
Continue ReadingBirchwood, Lincoln (1983)
Exorcist to visit ghost house. Council housing officers hope to be present when an exorcist arrives at a Birch-wood council house which tenants say is haunted by a ghost called George. Housing director Mr Arthur
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